Avenc de Can Pau Caló

Small pit 12 m deep in Terrades (Alt Empordà), located about 200 metres N of the Bauma de Taleixà.

Terrades • Alt Empordà 20m 12m

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Small pit 12 m deep in Terrades (Alt Empordà), located about 200 metres N of the Bauma de Taleixà.

Terrades · Alt Empordà

Length: 20 m · Depth: 12 m

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Topographic map of the main entrance — Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

Small pit 12 m deep in Terrades (Alt Empordà), located about 200 metres N of the Bauma de Taleixà.

Characteristics

Type: Pothole
Municipality: Terrades
Region: Alt Empordà
Unit: Empordà, l'
Length: 20 meters
Depth: 12 meters
Major Unit: Prepirineu
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: February 27, 2015

Location

It is located about 200 metres N of the Bauma de Taleixà, in Terrades (Alt Empordà). Approximate coordinates.

Entrances

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Can Pau Caló, Avenc de
Elevation: 275 m
42.316333, 2.848256
UTM 31T (ED 50) 487588 4685115
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Topographic

Avenc de Can Pau Caló - Topography, Terrades, Alt Empordà

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Description

Morphology

Through the small entrance of the cavity one enters a short descending gallery that, by means of a small step, leads to a chamber of reduced dimensions. Beside the entrance step begins a descending gallery that passes below the small room.

Progression

The descending gallery that passes below the small room leads, a few metres further on, into a small pit of little more than 4 metres of drop, where the pit ends.

History

On one of the many visits that Dr. Francesc Español made to the Bauma de Taleixà, specifically that of 18 September 1948, he must have been shown this nearby pit, making it the oldest exploration we know of, as recorded in the activities book of the GES – CMB.

We have practically almost no news of it until around the year 1979, also during a day of biospeleological research, it is visited by Xavier Bellés and Tere Cuñé, accompanied by Joan Cos (GEIS – Figueres), making the only survey we know of.

Bio

Coleoptera: Speonomus delarouzeei Farmaire.

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Bibliography

Borràs, J.; Miñarro,JM.; Talavera,F. (1980).- Catàleg espeleològic de Catalunya. Vol. 4: el Ripollès, la Garrotxa i l'Alt Empordà. 296 pp. Ed.Políglota. Barcelona.

Escolà, O.; Bellés, X. (1984).- “Distribució geogràfica dels Speonomus del subgènere Parvospeonomus (Col. Catopidae Bathysciinae) al vessant meridional dels Pirineus. Actes de la III Sessió conjunta d'entomologia: 19-28. ICHN – SCL. Mataró